‘This is only a test of our faith…’
Deary me, after the explosion of critically and commercially successful horror films in recent years, when something as uninspired and derivative as We Still Say Grace drops it really clangs. Horror audiences know they don’t have to put up with shit like this anymore, and so they won’t watch it. Well. I will obviously. And indeed I have. But most people won’t…
A trio of teenagers, each one more of a dickhead than the last, break down in the middle of nowhere and are forced to interrupt a Christian death cult just as they prepare to give themselves over to the lord. Family patriarch Harold (Bruce Davison) rules over his clan with an iron fist but that doesn’t stop his daughter Maggie (Holly Taylor) being led astray by the arrival of the three sinners.
So yes, we are discussing a horror movie released as recently as 2020 that revolves around a car breaking down in the wilderness. Perhaps one of the most overused and well worn tropes in horror history. This, combined with the idea of a religious cult, ensures that there is barely a shred of originality throughout. Davison’s charismatic performance and the fact that Taylor’s Maggie is vaguely likeable are the only saving graces in a film that is destined to be forgotten about completely the second that the credits roll.
We Still Say Grace is not a bad movie. It’s competently acted and features a coherent plot. But it’s also entirely uninspired and unoriginal. One for even the horror aficionados to miss.